David Bowie and Coldplay's Chris Martin are set to appear in the second series of Ricky Gervais's 'Extras'.

Ricky has admitted he is "in negotiations" with the rockers to have cameo roles in the hilarious show.

The funnyman has been friends with Bowie since they filmed a sketch together for charity show Comic Relief earlier this year, so he is hoping the legendary singer wil...

Jill Knispel, 35, of Englewood, hid the Greenwing parrot in her bra after taking it from her employer, Baby Exotic Birds of Englewood, police said.

When Knispel went to trade the bird for a vintage car, she told the car's owner how she got the animal, according to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Turns out the car's owner is friends with the man who owns the $2,000 bird.

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Over thousands of years since Jesus Leon's ancestors developed corn from a wispy grass, Mexican farmers have had an abiding relationship with the crop they call maize.

Near Leon's hometown in southern Mexico, a museum features ancient murals depicting humans being born of corn stalks. Patches of white, blue and red corn dot the mountainsides of the region.

But in just over a decad...

A group of resellers that last year formed an independent body aiming to push the benefits of software asset management (SAM) is looking for more vendors to supply funding.

Investors in Software (IiS), a not-for-profit organisation, was formed by the principals of Bytes, Grey Matter and Teksys, and a senior manager from Deloitte & Touche. It has since expanded to include SAM Partners and ...

Where the big deer roam: Pa. hunting as good as advertised 11/07/2005

EDITOR'S NOTE: Steve Waters is a sportswriter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Miami, Fla., who went deer hunting recently in western Pennsylvania.

EVANS CITY - Just when you're ready to climb down from your treestand and call it a day, the buck of a lifetime shows up and gets your heart pounding so hard, y...

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LOS ANGELES - There was little drama in the first game pitting longtime friends Pete Carroll and Walt Harris against each other as head coaches. No. 1 Southern California saw to that.

USC scored on each of its seven first-half possessions to take an insurmountable lead, and Carroll's Trojans went on to beat Stanford 51-21 Saturday night.

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However, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi noted as reported by the semi-official Mehr news agency, those responsible for the February 14 bombing death of Rafik Hariri should be brought to justice.

Syria has hotly denied any involvement in Hariri's death and maintains it cooperated with the U.N. investigation headed by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis.

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